Mohammad-Taq铆 Bah膩r (賲丨賲丿 鬲賯蹖 亘賴丕乇 in Persian) widely known as Malek o-Sho'ar膩 (賲賱讴鈥� 丕賱卮毓乇丕亍) and Malek o-Sho'ar膩 Bah膩r (literally: the king of poets), is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character.